January Stats for the WordPress Photo Directory

Welcome!

The WordPress Photo Directory is a directory of free, publicly-contributed, CC0-licensed photographs.

The Photo Directory team moderates every photo submitted to the directory, maintains and improves the directory site itself, and provides resources and documentation to educate, encourage, and facilitate photo contributors.

If you’re a new contributor, welcome! You can come chat with us in #Photos on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

Stay tuned as we develop our contributor handbook. If you’ve encountered an issue or have a suggestion for the Photo Directory, feel free to create a ticket.

We encourage you to submit one or more of your best photos to our directory!

2024 is starting off strong for the Photo Directory!

Our goal is to moderate photos as quickly as we can. And with our bigger team, we’ve been working through photos even faster. Please do remember we are all volunteers and work through the list as we are able to in the event there is a backlog. (And during photo events like WordPress Photo Festival 2024 where there is an influx of photography we will work as quickly as we can, but submitters need to be patient.)

If you’d like to contribute photos to the directory, you can do that at WordPress.org/photos.

If you’d like to join the moderators team, you can do that at make.wordpress.org/photos/handbook/moderating-photos.

Current stats for the project as of today, February 2, 2024:

NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 13,250
PENDING PHOTOS: 45
REJECTED PHOTOS: 2242
PHOTOS SINCE THE LAST MEETING: 888
PHOTOS REJECTED SINCE THE LAST MEETING: 212
NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTORS: 1647

Top Contributors:
🥇 mbigul: 845 photos
🥈 topher1kenobe: 841 photos
🥉 shelob9: 453 photos
🏅 mdburnette: 436 photos
🏅 bhuwanroka: 384 photos
🏅 michelleames: 287 photos
🏅 jenniferbourn: 270 photos
🏅 sharankrishna: 198 photos
🏅 kafleg: 191 photos
🏅 chrisedwardsce: 175 photos

Categories:
NATURE: 8934
ARCHITECTURE: 2605
FOOD-DRINK: 1271
ANIMALS: 1124
OBJECTS: 1087
ARTS-CULTURE: 891
TRANSPORTATION: 783
INTERIORS: 378
PATTERNS: 303
TECHNOLOGY: 215
PEOPLE: 207
FASHION: 103
ATHLETICS: 32

Landscape: 8258
Portrait: 4715
Square: 277